thornbush ['θɔ:nˌbʊʃ]

例句:

• The whole subfield of publishers' names is a thornbush of institutional idiosyncrasy.
  来自NEWYORKER
• Why would anyone want my ugly thorns? the thornbush wondered.
  [怎麽会有人要我这丑陋的刺? ]棘树心里发出疑惑.
  
• Like a thornbush in a drunkard's hand a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
  箴言在愚昧人的口中、好像荆棘刺入醉汉的手.
  
• The thornbush selected its most delicate bloom and held it high in the morning sun.
  荆棘树挑选出它最细坷的花朵,在晨光中高高的举起来.